Memorable Quotes

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Spontaneity and instincts are key factors to a memorable party.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Why wait to be memorable?

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

This is the short and the long of it.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I would fain die a dry death.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

Fill all thy bones with aches.

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.